Re: Broadband Router/Firewall

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, roylo wrote:

> Anyway, the more bandwidth the better; one C&W co-lo here has two OC192
> lines, and I heard they were
> planning to add more. [I would kill for that kinda of connection]
> 
> q(~^_^~)p
> 
> BTW do you live in Japan or US?
> How much would it cost me to maintain the kinda of connection I have now (I
> have 1.1Mbps SDSL at home) in Japan

I live in the US.  I have a 1.54mbit/128kbit ADSL... had an SDSL but the
line provider went bankrupt (Northpoint).  Now the ADSL is the best I can
get here.

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>
> To: <tlug@example.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Broadband Router/Firewall
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, roylo wrote:
> >
> > > > ah, ok.  I don't think we have T2s in the USA though, even though the
> > > > standard is defined.  never seen an ISP offer that, anyway.
> > > Yes, you are right about that.
> > > It most cases the ISP will give you a T3 with a bandwidth cap on it. The
> > > ideal behind it
> > > was that, since it cost the same to layout the lines you might as well
> get a
> > > cap T3 then a T2.
> > > That way you don't have to layout another line when you need more
> bandwidth.
> > > {just {re|un}cap it instead)
> > >
> > > One of the companies I used to work for had an OC12 layout for that
> reason
> > > and they were only using T3.
> >
> > fractional lines are quite common here... fractional T1, fractional T3,
> > almost all ISPs provide that.  So, yeah, you could get T2 equivalent
> > bandwidth out of a fractional T3 :)
> >
> > >
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Director of Information Technology, Director of Research and Development
ITIsOpen, Inc. - http://www.itisopen.com
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